rrHERE was a distinctly Churchillian tone about the paper given 1. yesterday to the Public Transport Association conference...

GOODS Revolutionary recommendations might well be put forward by the R.H.A.'s licensing study group, said Mr. D. 0. Good at...

ESPONDING to the toast of the F. R.H.A. proposed by Dr. Beeching at the Association's annual dinner at Grosvenor House, London,...

FROM A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT QINCE it was clear that the six States of the E.E.C. were unlikely to accept an automatic...

contract which will give more than 1,000 Belfast transport workers wage increases of around 64 per cent now and 3 - 1 per cent...

T HE Ministry of Transport is being asked by the Traders Road Transport Association not to make indiscriminate or unnecessary...

T " European Conference of Ministers of Transport (E.C.M.T.), in its recently published ninth annual report covering 1962,...

nVER 7,000 miles will be covered in the course of two Continental trips by a vehicle operated by C. and M. Yates Transport...

seemed to have reduced accidents by about 1,000 a year and fatalities by about 30, said Dr. R. J. Sneed of the Road Research...

Of the several factors responsible. a primary one is the development of Association activities and services. But some of the...

turn-round of vehicles will be held by the Willesden and Hendon N.P.Y. committee at Willesden Technical College, Denzil Road,...

Easier" on page 50 of this issue, the first two lines should read: " An airoperated tyre toolhas been introduced by...

Transport Department since 1960, has been appointed to the exocutive of the International Union of Public Transport (U IT. P. )

Parlia . Iti - Ea.try In the Commons This Week 'THE Transport Holding Company I started life this year with a probable debt...

P EOPLE who thought implementation I of the Beeching report would mean a bonanza for the bus industry were mistaken, said the...

C RITICISM of under-powered lorries grinding their way up hills and causing a nuisance to the public was made by Mr. J. A. T....

F OLLOW1NG a series of offences against Section 178 of the 1960 Road Traffic Act, the North Western Licensing Authority....

IN order to extend the scope of its fleet, Flynn Brothers (Contractors) Ltd. applied to vary the conditions attached to its B...

R ESERV1NG his decision on an application by Progressive Deliveries Ltd. for B licences for 10 lorries and trailers and 10...

LICENSING CASEBOOK BY NORMAN H. TILSLEY ' They are not negotiable assets '—Mr. Muir T HE Metropolitan Licensing Authority,...

lk /TORE and more applications are "I being made to Licensing Authorities to convert B vehicles into Alicensed vehicles under...

Big Bids in Four Areas QUBSTANTIAL applications are L. , notified this week from the Western, Eastern, Northern and Scottish...

Grant Was Justified A Nappeal by British Railways against the grant by the Scottish Licensing Authority of an A licence in...

Company Busmen Get 88. 9d. FROM OUR INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT P AY increases for 100,000 company busmen were agreed when the...

"is becoming fashionable to urge the bus industry to improve its 'image' by providing more comfortable 'more efficient ', and '...

From Our Industrial Correspondent I ONDON TRANSPORT, which only recently concluded lengthy negotiations for a pay rise for its...

Last week the Bradford transport committee recommended the appointment of Mr. Man Gurley as rolling-stock engineer to the...

Concessionary Fares AR. LAIN MACLEOD, Leader of the 1 V 1 Commons, last week promised to look into the possibility of...

and Industrial Use Free-acceleration Test for Smoke' I F a "free-acceleration" test employing a smoke meter were instituted...

T HE ScarnmeIl Univan boxvan semitrailer can now be supplied with Fourtrak twin-oscillating-axle running gear for each of the...

A DROP - FRAME semi-trailer on rl which the load deck can be uncoupled from the forward raised portion for loading purposes has...

MORE COMET BUSES FOR INDIA: Following closely on the Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation's recent order for 200 Ashok...

Tractor-trailer Braking System A TRACTOR-TRAILER braking system that can apply either all brakes or only those of the trailer...

Handling Fuller Transmissions: As a result of the acquisition of the E.N.V. companies bythe Eaton Manufacturing Co. of...

having a pressure-operated automatic advance unit in its drive. C.A.V. Ltd., Warple Way, London, W.3. 914,604 Braking heavy...

A NEW Tico hydraulic lorry-mounted rk crane—the model K.100E—is now available from the U.K. concessionnaires, Colchester...

A N anti-rattle latch developed by R. A. Neaverson Ltd., Abbey Lane, Leicester, for vehicle drop sides is fully...

THERE are now four publications in I series of Bearing Data Books produced by the Skefko Ball Bearin g Co. Ltd., Luton, Beds....

Q1MPLE but effective door-check stays kJ to hold open the driver's and passenger's doors on van and car models in the B.M.C....

'Two new aerosol-dispensed solid-film I lubricants—Moly Spray Kote and Molykote-Spray-Rapid—available from Molykote Great...

A THREE-WHEELED battery-electric PI introduced by In g ersoll-Rand Co. Ltd., 164 Queen Victoria Street, London, E.C.4, has the...

R EMOVABLE name boards for the sides of B.M.C. i-ton Mini vans can be obtained from Harespares, Surrey Street, Littlehanapton,...

By JOHN F. MOON, A.M.I.R.T.E. O NE of the disadvantages of single-drive bogies is that of occasional driving-wheel spin,...

WRITES The Labour party . . . has no real policy on road transport F ROM recent statements by leaders of the Labour party,...

" IT'S no good having a highly skilled nit as a driver but fortunately there is greater comprehension of the rules than last...

survive, and a dissertation on architecture; these were the contrasting themes of the two papers at the 1963 Public Transport...

Mr. Humpidge began his paper. Its purpose, he said, was to draw the urgent attention of national and local government, and the...

A S reported in The Commercial Motor of August 31, 1962, five special double-deck buses on Thames Trader p.s.v. chassis are to...

S UBSTANT1AL reduction in insurance rates by the use of direct ferry removals, as opposed to lift vans, was disclosed by Mr. B....

E VER heard of a seven-year-old belting along in a 5-ton tipper at speed? If you find this difficult to believe I suggest you...

Staff-car Problems A , SUBSTANTIAL proportion of six million private cars on the road in this country are primarily in use...